¶ Learning About Noah's Ark and Grace
Hello , hello , and welcome back to Learning to Live in Truth . We are so glad to be before you one more time . I hope all is well . I hope you're having a great day . Amen , my name is Catherine . Amen , I am your host . I hope that you are having you've had a good one . Yeah , hold on , turn this down a little bit . Turn it down . There we go .
Yeah , that's better . All right , so I am ready to get into the word . I hope that you are . Today , we're picking up at verse 14 , as promised , yeah , and we are talking all about the grace that Noah found before the Lord . Amen , so now we are getting ready to go into building dark . So let's do it . Verse 14 what am I doing ? We gotta pray .
What am I doing ? Y'all know it . Let's pray . Thank you , god , for giving us yet another opportunity to get into your word . Thank you so much , father , that you have called us into this place . I want to hear and I want to be able to understand what you're saying to us , not only in this hour , in this moment , but in this season .
Pray , god , that you would use us to your glory . Use , pray , god , that you use us to your glory . Use me , father to your glory , a willing vessel , god , ready to do what you called me to do . I pray , god , that you would just do what only you can .
I pray this prayer and we ask , in the precious name of Jesus Christ , we do pray , amen , amen , hallelujah . So we are picking up at verse 14 . I hope that you were here on yesterday and listening . If you have not , I want to suggest that you go back , listen to yesterday . So , coming into the chapter , it makes sense .
Yeah , because we left off at 14 and he said make thee an ark of gopher wood . On whom shalt thou make in the ark and shall pitch it within and without with pitch , amen . So what he says , uh instructs noah to do , is to get some pine , cypress type of wood , wood , wood that's strong and durable . It's able to be able to what is it like ?
A water resistance to it ? Yeah , that it won't crumble , much like what we use today . It gets wet . What is that wood ? Pressed wood , I think that's what it's called . Yeah , it's a bunch of wood chips like put together to make . This is wood that is solid . Yeah . And then he said when you make the rooms , put some pitch on it .
Pitch in our language , our today would be , would be like caulk , yeah , seal , it keeps , keeps um stuff from coming in or out . Yeah , we see caulk on our windows , see caulk on our bathtubs , caulk around our um windows , um the borders of our floor , of our um rooms . We see all of that .
All of that is to protect again what is coming in and what is coming out . Nothing is damaged . Yeah , so obviously that was the most good way of doing it before they came up with something much cheaper , much more attainable for us in our day Calking , yeah , verse 15 . And he said and this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it .
Makealky , yeah , verse 15 . And he said and this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it . Make it of the length of the art shall be 300 cubits and the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits .
Okay , so a cubit , because I've already , you know , bit , because I've already , you know , did a little bit of research , I guess you could say , uh , a cube , it is from your middle finger , should be here to your elbow . That's about 18 inches , about round , about 18 , and so the length of it is 300 , the thickness of the wood 50 .
I mean , god , that's long , right , um , and then your height is 30 . So , yeah , an ancient ship as the bible describes here in my commentary . Ancient ship . I'm not like our cruise ships , we get on , but , but I ain't shitting , amen . And another thing to note the fact that it's three stories high .
We'll read that in the next verse , but it's three stories high and I would definitely , and I hope y'all would agree that I'm sure that every room was by design . Yeah , because we had a male and a female of every animal that had been created . Yeah , and then , of course , the family of noah .
Yeah , I think I'm getting ahead of myself , but I want to put some things in perspective in your mind . Yeah , drinking the .
¶ Understanding the Story of Noah's Ark
So verse 16 this is a window shalt thou make to the ark , and it is a cubit . Shalt thou finish it above . And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side . Therefore , with lower , second and third story , shalt thou make it . Now , when I picture that , I picture that like Therefore , with lower , second and third story , shop , I'll make it .
Now when I picture that , I picture that like a skylight . You know how we have a skylight so we can see up in the sky . What's going on ? That window , that's the only thing that I can figure no-transcript that the dove came out of and came back into .
Yeah , so outside of that it says that it is above and then it says put aside , your there , I'm sure , so you can get in and out . Yeah , so I mean a little bit of logic , a little bit of spiritual . We're going to put it together , right . Yeah , y'all talk about it . Look 17, . He said , and behold , I , I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth .
So god said this ain't nobody but me . I am bringing a flood into the earth to destroy all flesh . So I'm doing this on purpose . For purpose , yeah , because remember , earlier in yesterday he said you know , he repented that he had made all of the beads that he had made because of how they were acting , the things that they were doing . He repented of that .
He wished he hadn't . Yeah , so we ought to be real , real mindful of that . So he said to destroy all flesh within is the breath of that . So he said to destroy all flesh within is the breath of life From under heaven , and everything that is in the earth shall die . All of it's going to die . I'm getting rid of it .
Can you imagine what the land looked like , what the world looked like when that ship was rising above the water ? All those bodies , the , the animals , all of the debris ? You know , kind of like you know , after the flood is over , what it looks like ? Oh my goodness , I can't even imagine . But just imagine it for a moment . This is how it looked , amen .
Now we go on to verse 18 . He says but with all . No , he says but with thee Will I establish my covenant . So he is Talking Indirectly or directly to Noah .
He says With your obedience , through your obedience , this is a covenant or promise that I'm going to make with you , that that thou shalt come into the ark , thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives , and with thee . So he says you know , this is a promise that I'm making with you . Know that you and your family will be saved .
Y'all all are going to come onto the ark . Ark , he said . And of every living thing , of all flesh , two of every sort , shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive . With thee , thou shalt be male and female .
So every living thing of all flesh , of all flesh Of all flesh , he said Of fowls after their kind , and of cattle after their kind , and of every creeping thing Of the earth , after his time , two of every sort Shall come unto thee To keep them alive . So the flesh that he's talking about In verse 20 .
Is through his sons and his sons and their wives and the children that they produce . So that's going to save the human race . He said I want to do it like this . And then he says you know all of the animals , one of one , male , one female . You know all of the animals , one male , one female . He said the cattle . He says the fish .
Look , he said the fowl of the air . All , one of each , male and female . That's just . I mean , when you think about that , it's like man Noah had a lot of no , let's say it like this Everything and anything , it all surrendered unto the voice of God . I mean , can you imagine trying to capture a vulture or an eagle to get it inside of a ship ?
Yeah , with a top over it . Come on somebody . Logically , that would make no sense . That's impossible . But with god all things are possible . Right ? Look at 21 . He says and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten . So everything that everybody eats . He says take some .
He says , thou shalt gather it to thee , and it shall be food for thee and for them . Thus did noah according to all that God commanded him . So did he . Okay . So Noah moved in obedience , based on what the Lord told him to do . He didn't ask him a whole lot of questions , did he According to the word ?
He didn't ask him a whole lot of questions , he just did what he told him to do . Isn't it something that we will ask the lord a thousand questions before we do whatever he's told us to do ? Just do it . Yeah , I mean , just do it , hallelujah . And you know the things that we don't know , the things we don't understand .
He will bring us a sense of peace that surpasses understanding . Amen , all of that worry and that fear and the stress and all of that that comes in between being obedient . Yeah , it's difficult , hallelujah , come on . Tonight . It's difficult , but if we are trusting God to bring us through , then we got to trust God to bring us through .
Yeah , whatever a blank we can't fill , we got to know God to bring us through . You know , whatever a blank we can't , we got to know that God has already filled it , hallelujah . He already knew the adversity that we faced along the way . Yeah , you just got to know that . He got it . He got it .
I was just praying here just a few minutes ago before I started . I mean , I had to talk to the Lord for a minute , amen , because there's some things happening in my life I don't understand . I mean I had to talk to the Lord for a minute , amen , because there's some things happening in my life I don't understand . I don't understand why .
I don't understand what is the issue . I don't get it . But because I'm trusting God , I believe that he's going to work it all out for my good . Amen . He is not here to make us go through hell in our water , amen . But he does desire for us to prosper . You gotta know that the journey it ain't always smooth .
You're a journey especially like if you climb the mountain . You got parts of it . It's gonna be uh hard and difficult to walk , to climb . It's going to be places where it's real smooth and easy to walk on . That's life . You know what I mean . Amen . At the end of the day , we're trusting God . Trusting God , no matter how high the mountain is .
We know that we're not alone . Come on somebody . I hope that that was a word of inspiration . Uh , for somebody , amen , it was definitely for me . Amen . We are not alone in this journey . We are not alone in the things that god is calling us to do , amen . And here's another thing the things that god calls us to do , it ain't always necessarily a deed .
Amen . God calls us into different arenas of life . Amen , hallelujah . We have to go through a period of childhood , don't we ? Amen ? It's difficult and it's hard , but God , that's a part of the process . Amen , hallelujah . And then we have to go through what ? Young adulthood ? Then we have to go through adulthood , amen .
We're living our life in stages , or in cycles , you could say , and we are always gaining and losing and doing all types of things through this journey .
¶ Embracing Life's Transitions in Faith
Then we go from being single to married Come on somebody , hallelujah . Then we go from being married to having children come on somebody . And all of these dynamics we gotta know , like a big pot of soup , it's all working together . Hey , man , god working it together , because he made everything , he made everybody for him , and they were all made . What ?
By him , him For his glory , hallelujah , amen . We got to know that God is in the midst of whatever is happening in your life . All right , y'all , I'm ready to pray . I hope y'all are . Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you , god , for allowing , yet again , another opportunity to be in your word .
Thank you , god , for clarity and giving us some understanding , making the way clear . I pray , god , as we continue to go forth , even beyond listening to this podcast , that you make our way clear , god , as we go forth following you as your disciples . God , make the way clear because you are the way , you are the truth , you are the life .
Hallelujah , we thank you . Thank you , god , for all of who you are and all that we are . Because of that , father , we bless your people , we bless your name . In Jesus Christ's name , I do pray . Amen , amen and amen . Hallelujah , amen . I hope that y'all will come back with me as we jump into chapter 7 of this great book of Genesis . Amen .
So much love , so many blessings from me to you . Have a blessed day and a blessed night . Amen , amen and amen .